paula simoes' blog<p><strong>It’s Friday, let’s read: Gardening for women and Frances Wolseley</strong></p> <a href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/facing140.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Preparing The Frames At Studley College For Lady Gardeners. From the book <em>Gardening for women</em> <p>(Edited 03/08/2025: Monica was so kind to search online for the book <em>The Countryman’s Log Book</em> and shared the link in the comments. Thank you so much! I’m adding the link also in the post)</p><p>This week, the British Library shared a link to the online exhibition <em>“Frances Wolseley: Gardener, activist, aristocrat”</em> at LibraryOn, that shows the importance Wolseley had in promoting gardening as a profession for women. The exhibition is based on the special collections found in the libraries and it’s really interesting. You <a href="https://libraryon.org/special-collections/frances-wolseley-gardening-educator" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">check it here</a>.</p><p>Wolseley also wrote several books, now in public domain, so I thought that for the weekend I could share the links to Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive where you can download them and read them in whatever device you have (yes, even in a browser).</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69705" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gardening for Women</a> – 1908 – a practical guide for women who wanted to follow gardening as a profession </p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924002830283/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">In a College Garden</a> – 1916 – About running a college for women gardeners</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924013937580/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Women and the Land</a> – 1916 – About the need to grow food during and after wartime</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/gardenstheirform00wolsrich/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gardens: their form and design</a> – 1919 – Garden design (with beautiful illustrations, I think I’ll start with this one)</p><p><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031501730&seq=8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Countryman’s Log Book</a> – 1921 – About farming and old English traditions (It seems really interesting and is divided into months. Thank you to Monica that shared the link in the comments down below!)</p><p>She also published two more books that collected her articles published in a magazine (<em>Some of the Smaller Manor Houses of Sussex</em> and <em>Historic Houses of East Sussex and their Owners</em>). It’s not easy to find her books in paper either.</p><p>I hope you have a great weekend and happy reading!</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/20th-century/" target="_blank">#20thCentury</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/books-2/" target="_blank">#books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/british-authors/" target="_blank">#BritishAuthors</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/ebooks/" target="_blank">#ebooks</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/farming/" target="_blank">#Farming</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/frances-wolseley/" target="_blank">#FrancesWolseley</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/garden/" target="_blank">#Garden</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/garden-design/" target="_blank">#GardenDesign</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/gardening/" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/nature/" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/old-books/" target="_blank">#OldBooks</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/public-domain/" target="_blank">#publicDomain</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/readings/" target="_blank">#readings</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/tag/women/" target="_blank">#Women</a></p>